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public static int maxSumWithK() {
		int[] a = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 };
		int k = 2;
		int maxSum[] = new int[a.length];
		int sum = a[0];
		maxSum[0] = sum;
		for (int i = 1; i < maxSum.length; i++) {
			sum += a[i];
			if (sum > a[i]) {
				maxSum[i] = sum;
			} else {
				maxSum[i] = a[i];
				sum = a[i];
			}
		}

		sum = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
			sum += a[i];
		}
		int max = sum;
		for (int i = k; i < maxSum.length; i++) {
			sum = sum + a[i] - a[i - k];
			if (sum + maxSum[i - k] > max)
				max = sum + maxSum[i - k];
		}
		return max;
	}

- Anonymous May 13, 2017 | Flag Reply
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public static int maxSumWithK() {
		int[] a = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 };
		int k = 2;
		int maxSum[] = new int[a.length];
		int sum = a[0];
		maxSum[0] = sum;
		for (int i = 1; i < maxSum.length; i++) {
			sum += a[i];
			if (sum > a[i]) {
				maxSum[i] = sum;
			} else {
				maxSum[i] = a[i];
				sum = a[i];
			}
		}

		sum = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
			sum += a[i];
		}
		int max = sum;
		for (int i = k; i < maxSum.length; i++) {
			sum = sum + a[i] - a[i - k];
			if (sum + maxSum[i - k] > max)
				max = sum + maxSum[i - k];
		}
		return max;

}

- Ajay Kumar May 13, 2017 | Flag Reply
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public static int maxSumWithK() {
		int[] a = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 };
		int k = 2;
		int maxSum[] = new int[a.length];
		int sum = a[0];
		maxSum[0] = sum;
		for (int i = 1; i < maxSum.length; i++) {
			sum += a[i];
			if (sum > a[i]) {
				maxSum[i] = sum;
			} else {
				maxSum[i] = a[i];
				sum = a[i];
			}
		}

		sum = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
			sum += a[i];
		}
		int max = sum;
		for (int i = k; i < maxSum.length; i++) {
			sum = sum + a[i] - a[i - k];
			if (sum + maxSum[i - k] > max)
				max = sum + maxSum[i - k];
		}
		return max;

}

- Ajay Kumar May 13, 2017 | Flag Reply
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import java.util.List;

public class MaximumK {

	//Maximum with continuous elements
	public int MaxCont(List<Integer> list) {
		int currMax = list.get(0);
		int maxsoFar = list.get(0);

		for (int i = 1; i < list.size(); i++) {
			currMax = Math.max(list.get(i), currMax + list.get(i));
			maxsoFar = Math.max(currMax, maxsoFar);
		}

		return maxsoFar;
	}

	//Maximum with K-min continuous elements
	public int MaxContwithK(List<Integer> list, int k) {

		int curK = 0;

		for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
			curK = curK + list.get(i);
		}
		int currMax = curK;
		int maxsoFar = curK;

		for (int i = k; i < list.size(); i++) {
			
			curK = curK - list.get(i - k) + list.get(i);

			currMax = Math.max(curK, currMax + list.get(i));
			
			maxsoFar = Math.max(currMax, maxsoFar);
		}

		return maxsoFar;
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {

	}

}

- Anonymous May 14, 2017 | Flag Reply
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import java.util.List;

public class MaximumK {

	//Maximum with continuous elements
	public int MaxCont(List<Integer> list) {
		int currMax = list.get(0);
		int maxsoFar = list.get(0);

		for (int i = 1; i < list.size(); i++) {
			currMax = Math.max(list.get(i), currMax + list.get(i));
			maxsoFar = Math.max(currMax, maxsoFar);
		}

		return maxsoFar;
	}

	//Maximum with K-min continuous elements
	public int MaxContwithK(List<Integer> list, int k) {

		int curK = 0;

		for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
			curK = curK + list.get(i);
		}
		int currMax = curK;
		int maxsoFar = curK;

		for (int i = k; i < list.size(); i++) {
			
			curK = curK - list.get(i - k) + list.get(i);

			currMax = Math.max(curK, currMax + list.get(i));
			
			maxsoFar = Math.max(currMax, maxsoFar);
		}

		return maxsoFar;
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {

	}

}

- mundra May 14, 2017 | Flag Reply
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int maxSubArray(vector<int> nums, size_t k) {
  int currSum = 0;
  for(size_t i = 0; i < k; i++) {
    currSum += nums[i];
  }
  int maxSum = currSum;
  int runSum = 0;
  
  for(size_t i = k; i < nums.size(); i++) {
    currSum += nums[i];
    runSum += nums[i-k];
    if(runSum < 0) {
      currSum -= runSum;
      runSum = 0;
    }
    if(currSum > maxSum) {
      maxSum = currSum;
    }
  }
  return maxSum;
}

- Salar May 14, 2017 | Flag Reply
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I'm maintaining a Queue of all the elements in the window. I dequeue an old element and enqueue a new element to calculate the window sum.

There are 2 integers first and last that are used to identify the position of the subarray

private int MaxSubArray(int[] nums, int k)
        {            
            int windowSum = 0, maxSum = 0; // For comparison of Maxsum
            int first = 0, last = k-1; // Indexes of the max sum sub-array

            Queue<int> numQueue = new Queue<int>(); // Elements in the window

            // Generate sum of the first window
            for (int i = 0; i < k; i++)
            {
                windowSum += nums[i];
                numQueue.Enqueue(nums[i]);
            }
            maxSum = windowSum;

            // Iterate through the rest of the array to find higher sum
            for (int i = 1; i < nums.Length - k + 1; i++)
            {
                int deq = numQueue.Dequeue();
                windowSum += nums[i + k - 1] - deq; // Sum of this window
                numQueue.Enqueue(nums[i + k - 1]);

                // If sum of this window is more than current maxSum 
                //          then we have found a new max sum
                if (windowSum > maxSum)
                {
                    first = i;
                    last = i + k;
                    maxSum = windowSum;
                }
            }
            return maxSum;
        }

- llamatatsu May 15, 2017 | Flag Reply
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int MaxSubarray(vector<int> const &a, int k)
{
	int max_sum = numeric_limits<int>::min();
	if (k > 0 &&
		k <= a.size())
	{
		int start = 0;
		int sum = 0;
		int tail_sum = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); ++i) {
			sum += a[i];
			if (i >= k) {
				tail_sum += a[i - k];
				if (tail_sum <= 0) {
					sum -= tail_sum;
					tail_sum = 0;
					start = i - k + 1;
				}
			}
			if (i - start + 1 >= k) {
				max_sum = max(max_sum, sum);
			}
		}

	}
	return max_sum;
}

- Alex May 15, 2017 | Flag Reply
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This one was kept me thinking about why the condition would work for every case. The idea is to keep a window of at least k elements and two counters in one you always add elements to the right side of the window and in the other you always add elements from the left side of the window. If at some point the counter that add elements from the left side of the window becomes negative you can be sure that those elements don't contribute to compute the maximum sum and you can remove them from the window. As you don't know if by removing you are computing the maximum sum as this can happen several times you need to keep the track of that too.
Here a working version in python

def max_subarray_with_k(v, k):
    running = 0
    current = sum(v[:k])
    max_sum = current
    
    for x in xrange(k, len(v)):
        current += v[x]
        running += v[x-k]
        
        if running < 0:
            current -= running
            running = 0
        if current > max_sum:
            max_sum = current
            
    return max_sum

- Fernando May 16, 2017 | Flag Reply
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The Problem is an extension of Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray problem which can be solved using Kadane's Algorithm.
Here I put the adaptation for min-k size version (as well as the original Kadane's Algorithm, for comparison):

int MinsizeMaxSubarray(vector<int> a,int k)
{
  int i,maxendhere=0,maxsofar,sumoflastk;
  for(i=0;i<k;i++)maxendhere+=a[i];
  maxsofar = maxendhere;
  sumoflastk = maxendhere;
  for(;i<a.size();i++)
  {
    maxendhere += a[i];
    sumoflastk += a[i]-a[i-k];
    if(maxendhere<sumoflastk) maxendhere = sumoflastk;
    if(maxsofar<maxendhere) maxsofar = maxendhere;
  }
  return maxsofar;
}

int MaxSubarray(vector<int> a)
{
  int maxendhere=0,maxsofar=0;
  for(int i=0;i<a.size();i++)
  {
    maxendhere += a[i];
    if(maxendhere<0) maxendhere = 0;
    if(maxsofar<maxendhere) maxsofar = maxendhere;
  }
  return maxsofar;
}

The extension to the streaming env. is simple, using a circular list that maintains the last k elements in the stream.

- asudeh May 27, 2017 | Flag Reply
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The Problem is an extension of Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray problem which can be solved using Kadane's Algorithm.
Here I put the adaptation for min-k size version (as well as the original Kadane's Algorithm, for comparison):

int MinsizeMaxSubarray(vector<int> a,int k)
{
  int i,maxendhere=0,maxsofar,sumoflastk;
  for(i=0;i<k;i++)maxendhere+=a[i];
  maxsofar = maxendhere;
  sumoflastk = maxendhere;
  for(;i<a.size();i++)
  {
    maxendhere += a[i];
    sumoflastk += a[i]-a[i-k];
    if(maxendhere<sumoflastk) maxendhere = sumoflastk;
    if(maxsofar<maxendhere) maxsofar = maxendhere;
  }
  return maxsofar;
}

int MaxSubarray(vector<int> a)
{
  int maxendhere=0,maxsofar=0;
  for(int i=0;i<a.size();i++)
  {
    maxendhere += a[i];
    if(maxendhere<0) maxendhere = 0;
    if(maxsofar<maxendhere) maxsofar = maxendhere;
  }
  return maxsofar;
}

The extension to the streaming env. is simple, using a circular list that maintains the last k elements in the stream.

- asudeh May 27, 2017 | Flag Reply
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The Problem is an extension of Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray problem which can be solved using Kadane's Algorithm.
Here I put the adaptation for min-k size version (as well as the original Kadane's Algorithm, for comparison):

int MinsizeMaxSubarray(vector<int> a,int k)
{
  int i,maxendhere=0,maxsofar,sumoflastk;
  for(i=0;i<k;i++)maxendhere+=a[i];
  maxsofar = maxendhere;
  sumoflastk = maxendhere;
  for(;i<a.size();i++)
  {
    maxendhere += a[i];
    sumoflastk += a[i]-a[i-k];
    if(maxendhere<sumoflastk) maxendhere = sumoflastk;
    if(maxsofar<maxendhere) maxsofar = maxendhere;
  }
  return maxsofar;
}

int MaxSubarray(vector<int> a)
{
  int maxendhere=0,maxsofar=0;
  for(int i=0;i<a.size();i++)
  {
    maxendhere += a[i];
    if(maxendhere<0) maxendhere = 0;
    if(maxsofar<maxendhere) maxsofar = maxendhere;
  }
  return maxsofar;
}

The extension to the streaming env. is simple, using a circular list that maintains the last k elements in the stream.

- a.asudeh May 27, 2017 | Flag Reply
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At index i, we have to choose to extend the subarray or drop it.
When we drop it, the new subarray doesn't start from i but i-k+1,
and to make a decision (extend/drop) we have to compare between
- current_max_subarray_sum_ends_at_i (current_max + nums[i])
- and last_k_sum(from i-k+1 to i)
To achieve O(N), we should keep track of last_k_sum values (current_ksum)
and we can compute new current_ksum by: current_ksum - nums[i-k] + nums[i]

def find_max_subarray(nums, k):
    if not nums: return
    len_nums = len(nums)

    if len_nums < k: return 
    if len_nums == k: return sum(nums), 0, len_nums-1
    
    current_max = sum(nums[:k])
    current_ksum = sum(nums[:k])
    current_start = 0
    max_sum = current_max
    max_start = 0
    max_end = 1
    
    for i in range(k, len_nums):
        current_ksum = current_ksum - nums[i-k] + nums[i]
        if current_max + nums[i] > current_ksum: # extends
            current_max = current_max + nums[i]
        else: # drop, but we have to maintain the window size k
            current_max = current_ksum
            current_start = i-k+1
                
        if current_max > max_sum:
            max_sum = current_max
            max_start = current_start
            max_end = i
        
        
    return max_sum, max_start, max_end                        
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    nums1 = [-4, -2, 1, -3]
    nums2 = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
    
    print(find_max_subarray(nums1, 2))
    print(find_max_subarray(nums2, 3))

- diko June 02, 2017 | Flag Reply


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